DDP News and Press, DB Commodity Short ETN due April 1 2038 From 06/25/19

The commodities asset class has been on the front lines of the trade dispute between the US and China. Whether it is soybeans or the copper market, many raw material prices experienced increased volatility since last year when the wave of protectionism began. Tariffs and subsidies interfere ...

By Carley Garner At a Glance Energy, grain, livestock and currency markets can all be affected by Fed decisions. Traders tend to focus on the interest rate and stock market going into a Federal Reserve meeting, but monetary policy often has profound impacts on commodity trade as well...

On June 10, the world will find out if President Trump's announcement on May 31 that he would be slapping tariffs on Mexican exports to the United States was a bluff or the real thing. The tariffs are supposed to go into effect this week at 5% and will rise by 5% each month. Eventually, the ma...

Over the past weeks, I spoke to several leaders in the ETF/ETN industry to get their take on the state of regulation and their opinions on whether those overseeing their industry were a help or a hindrance. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank legislation changes how m...

My first exposure to the commodities business was during the summer of 1976 when I was a summer intern at Philipp Brothers, one of the world's leading raw material merchant trading companies. Little did I know that spending the summer delivering telex messages to the traders and traffic clerks...

Capital growth and dividends attract investors to the stock market. Over my lifetime, which is coming up on six decades, investing savings in the stock market produced incredible returns. Despite the occasional correction, which is always ugly and frightening when it appears, owning a diversif...

I have been trading and analyzing commodities prices for almost four decades. In the late 1970s, a summer job at the world's leading commodities trading company turned out to be an invaluable education that would lead to a career choice. I was always interested in politics, history, and econom...

Tom's been telling anybody who would listen about Chinese hog farmers being hit with one of the worst outbreaks of African Swine Fever ((ASF)) in the country's history, and after hog futures finally caught up to the story - rising over 50% in March as pointed out by TT's Patrick Rooney - it'...

I have been trading commodities since the early 1980s, and over the years I have developed a method where I use both fundamental and technical analysis when approaching markets. I trademarked the term "Technomental" as it reflects my thinking about what drives prices higher and lower. Fundamen...

Not many people talk about commodities in the aggregate sense, i.e. as an overall asset class. Typically it's gold this or oil that, which is a shame because it is a really interesting asset class; particularly now as the core index we track is basically at a make-or-break turning point. The...